It all started as an average day in Happy Tree Town. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and Lumpy was causing chaos in his latest job.
Nutty was screaming as he bounced around in the back of Lumpy's taxi. "Could you, heeheehee, slow down, hahah, just a little, heehee, PLEASE!?" His panicked cries were mixed with involuntary giggles as the taxi ran down a generic tree friend and someone's mailbox, causing letters to fly all over the place and obscure the windshield. The jittery green squirrel clung onto his seat for dear life and closed his eyes, wondering if he would ever make it back home.
The blue moose in front turned around, revealing his crossed eyes. "Don't worry little fella, we'll get you to the docks in no time!" he said cheerfully.
"I WANTED TO GO THE CANDY STORE!" the squirrel screamed back. Opening his eyes, he saw that Lumpy had driven onto the sidewalk and was now plowing through a generic tree friend's backyard, with blood now added to the mix of letters covering the windshield. In the near distance, he could just make out a bunch of propane tanks. "KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD! WE'RE GONNA DIE!"
Quick as flash, Lumpy flung the steering wheel to the left, knocking over the tanks and causing the car to veer sharply through the bushes. "Aw, you worry too much!" he said as they drove through the foliage. The sound of a sudden explosion rang in the distance, as well as someone wailing. "NOOO! CUB!" At this point, Nutty had pulled the candy cane off of his chest and was biting it hard to keep from screaming, seriously reconsidering choosing Lumpy's Taxi Service.
Unfortunately, the taxi came out right in the middle of a playground where a yellow bunny in pink slippers, a buck-toothed purple beaver, and a pink chipmunk with a bow were playing tag. Unaware of anything wrong, assuming that Nutty was screaming about some little thing as usual, the three happily laughed and ran around.
"Tag, you're it Toothy!" the little chipmunk giggled cutely as she tapped the purple beaver on the tail.
The beaver tripped on a pinecone, but he got back up laughing and brushed himself off. The laughter soon turned into a gasp of horror though as finally noticed the blood-spattered taxi flying straight for his friend Cuddles. "Cuddles! Behind you!" he shouted and gestured frantically.
"I'm not falling for it this time, Toothy!" the yellow rabbit replied with a laugh. "That's the oldest trick in the bo-" He was cut off as the taxi collided with him, the sheer speed pinning him to the windshield and sending his pink slippers flying.
"LUMPY!" the squirrel cried.
"Oh darn, the weather's getting bad." He quickly turned on the window wipers which began slicing off small bits of Cuddles and smearing blood on the windshield. He also turned on the radio to drown out the sound of Cuddles' screams. "Darn wind," he muttered before singing along to his favorite song.
Giggles, meanwhile, was screaming her head off and chasing after the taxi, trying to get the driver's attention. "Lumpy! LUMPY!" she screamed at the oblivious moose. Unfortunately for her, the taxi somehow ended up getting one side caught on the carousel, and as she came closer, the carousel began spinning at a rapid speed and the taxi ran her over. The carousel kept spinning and the taxi kept running her over and over again until her screams finally quieted down and the pink chipmunk was reduced to a bloody mush on the green grass. The taxi finally got free and went flying.
Toothy, meanwhile, was running away sobbing at the death of his friends, tears blinding his eyes. Not being able to see anything, he tripped on another pinecone and went flying into the monkey bars. "Ohhh," he groaned clutching his head and attempting to stand up. At that moment, the taxi flew by and forced the beaver through the monkey bars, slicing him to pieces.
"Alright, here we are!" the dim-witted moose said cheerfully, pulling a shaking Nutty out of the backseat and ignoring the mutilated body of Cuddles that slid off of the windshield. The monkey bars, now damaged from the collision, then promptly collapsed, causing a piece to impale the back of his head, killing him instantly. Nutty, whose candy had been shaken off in the crash, giggled as he desperately searched for something sugary. After frantically scanning the bloody and torn up landscape, he spotted a shiny round object on the grass and picked it up, only to see that it was a weird idol thingy.
"Huh?" he said shortly before a frozen turkey fell out of the sky and smashed his head into the ground, killing him instantly.
Sniffles was busy walking home from a tiring day at the hospital, pondering the origins of the curse on Happy Tree Town, when he heard the turkey splatter Nutty's head like a ripe melon. He climbed over the chain-link fence and gasped upon seeing all of the carnage. He realized how much work he would have to do tomorrow and groaned in frustration. The sun then glinted off of something near Nutty's corpse. Carefully avoiding the bloody slices of Toothy and the frozen turkey, the blue anteater made his way over and saw the idol. He gasped again, recognizing it from various places around and near the town. The gears in his brain quickly spun as he realized it was almost always somewhere nearby whenever there was some kind of massacre. Two and two came together, and he realized that it could possibly be the source of the Happy Tree Curse.
Gingerly, he reached over and picked up the idol. He then ran as fast and in as direct of a path as possible to get back to his house, screaming all the way. On the way, he barely avoided a swerving truck driven by the Mole that caused a huge pile-up, dodged a laser from Splendid that sliced Lifty and Shifty in half, and just escaped an insane Flippy who was busy skinning Petunia. After carving a path of destruction in his wake, he finally made it back to the safety of his home. Panting and exhausted, he tossed the idol onto a work table and slumped over in a chair to rest. The folding chair then slammed shut on Sniffles, crushing his body. His blood slowly pooled on the floor beneath him. As if that wasn't enough, a bird came in through the open door and landed on his new laser, causing the laser to emit a beam that disintegrated his body along with half his house.
Author's Note: So yeah, here's my first story! Read and review if you'd like, and let me know how to write better.
